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Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology
Andrew Linzey (Ed.)
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Description for Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology
Hardback. Animal rights sounds like a modern idea, but in fact - for over three millennia - philosophers, theologians, and political theorists have grappled with the question of our obligations toward animals. This anthology illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals. It includes writings of authors from ancient Greece onwards. Editor(s): Linzey, Andrew; Clarke, Paul Barry. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 454.
This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical responsibilities for the welfare of animals, whether animals have rights, and what it means to be human.
This comprehensive and diverse anthology, the only one of its kind, illuminates the complex evolution of moral thought regarding animals and includes writings from ancient Greece to the present. Animal Rights reveals the ways in which a variety of thinkers have addressed such issues as our ethical responsibilities for the welfare of animals, whether animals have rights, and what it means to be human.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231134200
SKU
V9780231134200
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About Andrew Linzey (Ed.)
Andrew Linzey is a member of the Faculty of Theology, Oxford University, and Bede Jarrett Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars. He is also honorary professor in theology at Birmingham University and special professor at Saint Xavier University, Chicago. He has written or edited twenty books, including Aninal Theology, Animal Rites: Liturgies of Animal Care, and Animals on the Agenda: Questions ... Read more
Reviews for Animal Rights: A Historical Anthology
The anthology adds a much-needed historical depth to current controversies. BMS Book News: Interaction This volume well serves the purposes that the editors set for it.
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